Quoted from bingopodcast:Clean, scrub, clean some more. Keep going!
Up to 16 now.
Quoted from dasvis:Dang, I do want a bowler - wish I had more room!
This one's only 9' long. In fact, not quite. YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Quoted from dmbjunky:You crazy, man.
Love bowlers. I've been working on a United shuffle targette machine since I purchased it in 2014. It's the shuffle board / skeeball type game. I originally cleaned enough steppers to see if it would start. It did so I started the process of a repaint. I didn't want to but all the paint on one side was flaking away. Plus I had to build the coin box since it was missing. Not looking forward to cleaning all the reels. Props to you man for doing it as quickly as you have.
Quoted from feveredpinhead:It's the shuffle board / skeeball type game.
Neat. Is that the one where the puck goes flying up into some skeeball rings at the end of the lane?
Quoted from feveredpinhead:Plus I had to build the coin box since it was missing.
In a....home environment? O_o
Quoted from feveredpinhead:Not looking forward to cleaning all the reels. Props to you man for doing it as quickly as you have.
A couple things are helping me along the fast track:
1) None of my shuffle bowler score reels have PCB's, like my pinball machines do.
2) I'm doing sort of a cursory clean, not my customary OCD clean.
Basically I'm getting the score reels clean on the outside, ensuring smooth/snappy movement, and gapping switches correctly. *shrugs*
Also...
Quoted from RyanClaytor:Managed to finish the first dozen
Quoted from RyanClaytor:Up to 16 now.
20.
ZZzzz...
Hello again,
I've now made my way through both rows of score reels:
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...which means I've now cleaned twenty....
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...three? ...score reels?
Evidently this thing started to be swiped for parts before I bought it. Thankfully...
a) It was nicely desoldered instead of clipped:
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b) A while back I was sent a spare score reel by pinsider extraordinaire, SirScott !
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Hi Scott!
So that'll get fixed, likely once I have a guest roll into town in a day and a half. I'll be putting up (with ) none other than NicoVolta for his North American Pinball Tour. Cue tour illustration by yours truly:
To his credit, I sent him an innards picture of this machine (which is, like, 3 EM pinball machines jammed inside one cabinet):
...and he did not flinch. In fact, I believe his exact words were:
"Looks like fun!" Ha-ha!
In the meantime, there was an anomaly on the last (present) score reel I cleaned, in that it would not advance. I'm not familiar enough with the variety of parts to know whether or not something looks as it should. Thankfully there were twenty-some-odd neighboring duplicates I could reference to figure it out. So here's what a functional score reel looked like:
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...and here's what the stuck score reel looked like:
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Any guesses?
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It turned out that rocker-arm/lever thing was broken:
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Pretty obvious when compared with one that is in-tact:
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Thankfully (again) SirScott 's care package included not one, but TWO score reels, so I was able to nab an arm from one spare reel assembly and still have a complete reel remaining to replace the missing one mentioned earlier.
That should do it for the evening.
Quoted from RyanClaytor:Neat. Is that the one where the puck goes flying up into some skeeball rings at the end of the lane?
In a....home environment? O_o
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Sorry it took so long to get back to this. I didn't subscribe to the thread so it got kinda lost in the shuffle. Budda boom. But yeah it's the shuffle board/skeeball type game. It's actually pretty fun the little bit of testing I was doing. I got burned out after sanding the paint off and took like a year off from working on it maybe more. Came back to it, got part primered, and haven't had the time or right weather to finish primering the rest. My 1.5 year old takes up pretty much all my free time now.
And yes the coin box / coin chute, mechanism, whatever it's called on here was missing. I've got the missing parts but need to build the box it goes in. Someone just cut the wiring so for now it's just a spare arcade pushbutton wired up and dangling from underneath.
Quoted from feveredpinhead:shuffle board/skeeball type game.
Which "Target Shuffle" do you have?
Quoted from Mopar:Which "Target Shuffle" do you have?
Not to hijack but this one....
The flyer and when I purchased it. $20 at auction. Currently torn apart for primer and paint. Been sitting that way for a year or two. It's sad I know. Dieing to finish it but stuff just keeps getting in the way.
Quoted from feveredpinhead:Not to hijack but this one....
I know Playboy. I'd rather not hijack either. I'll start a
Playboy thread.
Quoted from Mopar:I know Playboy. I'd rather not hijack either. I'll start a
Playboy thread.
Please link here if you start a new thread. I'd love to follow.
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